Vi Hart

Here we are again. Listen: I’m going to make your Monday better by serving up these here links. They will make you think, gasp (GASP!) and laugh. I promise. You (YES YOU) can make a Lego Hubble Telescope a reality. Comic book maps through the ages: See a map of the Batcave from 1968. There’s a T-rex in the Trophy Room, obviously. Anti-NSA messages projected onto the US embassy in Berli... »

It’s the Monday Quickies! To hell with the polar vortex; surf’s up! Glendon Mellow found an extremely helpful thing: a site where you can find free Public Domain/Creative Commons silhouettes of organisms. It’s called PhyloPic. Take a look at our first glimpse of ocean life at the bottom of the previously unexplored New Hebrides trench in the Pacific. The results are surprsing. At... »

We often waltz along the intersection between the arts and the sciences here at Mad Art Lab and if that line of thinking or dancing is your cup of tea, then this video will be your bottle of champagne. The ever-so-talented Vi Hart has created one of the most inspiring pieces of video-art that I have seen in well, forever. It is seriously my favorite thing right now and I highly encourage each and ... »

It’s the Friday Quickies. Surf’s up! Remember the Quietus commercial from Children of Men? Watch it and other commercials from sci-fi flicks here. This is my favorite Thanksgiving post this year: works of art inspired by the Wishbone. Swiss photographer Fabian Oefner creates 3D art with soundwaves. Very happy to see this: Morbid Anatomy gets some love from Animal New York. At Symbiarit... »

What are we thankful for? Lots and that includes YOU people! It’s the Thanksgiving* Quickies. Dig in! Do you know the four big differences between Canadian and American Thanksgiving? Vegan black metal holiday hell roast, explosive thermite stuffing and eight more of the oddest Thanksgiving cooking tutorials on youtube. AWESOME! Attn GeekMakers: Here’s your first-ever geek-genre awards ... »

Another video from Vi Hart has left me fumbling around with paper and pens for a much larger amount of time than I had anticipated. In her latest creation, she introduces us to hexaflexagons. Go on, check it out! With multiple hidden sides and nifty fold away sections, these strange, flexible hexagons immediately caught my attention as perfect secret message holders! Once I figured out how to make... »